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Beyond the Book

Selected Events from the
early 1960s (from a British
perspective)

1960: Penguin Books put on
trial under the 1959 Obscene
Publications Act for publishing
Lady Chatterley's Lover
(30 years after it had first
been published in Italy). They
are found not guilty and the
prosecution is widely ridiculed
as being out of touch with
changing social norms when the
chief prosecutor asks if it were
the kind of book "you would wish
your wife or servants to read".

"The Pill" becomes the first FDA
approved drug to be given to a
healthy person for long-term
use.

British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan delivers his Wind of
Change speech indicating that
the British Government intends
to grant independence to many
territories.

1961: Russia wins the
space race; the Berlin Wall goes
up and the pill arrives in
Britain.

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